In a previous post, I discussed how the Web Client makes it difficult to create hybrid diskgroups grouped by array controller. I provided a PowerCLI script to automate diskgroup creation for this case. With All-Flash, the same issues around array controller grouping exists. A new issue that I encountered is that the “new-vsandiskgroup” cmdlet that… Read More »
Update March 22, 2017: Added ” | Where-Object { $_.Type -eq “Folder”}” to primaryfolder.extensiondata.childentity (and the subfolder one) to filter the childentities to just folders. SRM added a feature in which you map folder inventories across vCenters by assuming the folders had the same name and same structure. I already had one method for replicating folder… Read More »
edit 07-27-2017: Updated the script with username/password variables and also dynamically determine srmserveraddr by checking the primary vcenter extension manager. This will not work if you have multiple SRM servers (ie, shared-site config) I hit some issues finding the addfoldermapping function through the api exposed with connect-srmserver cmdlet, so I decided to use WSDL based… Read More »
EDIT 07-26-2017: PowerCLI 6.5.1 seems to fix this issue with connecting but you still may have issues finding some cmdlets, I don’t have the latest SRM so I can’t test the API. I have been getting back into SRM scripting, this time with SRM 6.1. In a previous post, I discussed some strategies around how… Read More »
One of the downsides of the web interface is that it is very difficult to group the disks by array controller when creating a diskgroup. You would have to determine the disks manually and then manually select the disks. From my discussions with VMware TMMs, the only reason to have a diskgroup span PCI controllers… Read More »
This is a follow-up to my last blog post. In the KB, VMware states that the issue is resolved in vCenter 6.0u2 but that if you still see the issue you will need to look at the database tables. My user informed today that the issue re-occurred after vCenter was patched over the weekend. I… Read More »
Quick Post. I have a customer who provisions a lot of VMs a head of time with generic names. Once the VM is put in use, the name is changed via PowerCLI to reflect what the VM is assigned to. We have been having some problems with our vCenter 6.0u1 which meant we had to… Read More »
I have been trying to test creating some new tag categories after my recent vCenter upgrades. I hit two snags: 1) In PowerCLI I was getting an error about connecting to inventory service on local host (localhost:10089/invsvc I believe). This was remedied by upgrading PowerCLI to 6.x (I went to 6.3R1) 2) Next error w… Read More »
HP released their custom ESXi 6.0u1 Image and VMware Recipe last month and I have just gotten around to building a custom iso for my environment. UPDATE: HP release a custom iso for ESXi 6.0u1b and it STILL has the issue, I still have a case open with HP. Update 2/12/2016: The case is starting… Read More »
One problem with using the Netapp VSC for backup and restore was that the VSC could only restore from backups that it knew that it took. This was also an advantage for Veeam, Veeam could do a restore (via flexcloning the volume) of any Netapp snapshot. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to pursue Veeam any further,… Read More »